Guava

Wanted to celebrate my birthday with my favorite Thai dish, so far only to be found in Thai at Silk, only to discover that they had taken the item out of their menu. Ended up celebrating in Guava and had (no pictures today):

Mongonisa
Nothing spectacular except for the Longganisang Lucban included in the dish.

Ginisang Gulay in Bihod Sauce
This was very very good. You could not taste the bitterness of the ampalaya in the dish. I could not have enough!! Bihod is fish roe (like Pinoy caviar I guess)
We had initially wanted the 3 mushroom and Kesong Puti Quiche (was excited about it) only to find out that they had run out of kesong puti.

Milk Fish Bellies in Guava Broth
The broth was very good! The veggies in the sinigang were a bit too little though.

Lamb Kaldereta
This was also very good. The shank was very tender. Went well with the olives in the dish.

Service was a bit slow, the place is indeed very cramped. It was also odd that they didn't have ORs yet. They gave us our bill in an index card!!

Not the best place for celebrations but would definitely come back.

Marina

I have a relative who asks to eat at Marina Seafood Restaurant everytime she's in town. On her last visit, these were what we had. (Note: there were only 4 of us eating at the time.)

Green Mango Salad

I don't know how this can be made special tasting.

Shrimp Sinigang

The soup was sour.

Kilawin

This was fish.

Beef Kare Kare

Bad move. Yes it was beef but all fatty parts!!!! grrr.... Totally did not enjoy this.

Chicken Skin


Leche Flan and Buko Salad

Cheap eats for a balikbayan. Hehe.

Congo Grill

Service was soooo bad. It was so hard to grab the waiters attention, it took them
forever to serve our food, give us our menu, tissue and bill! We actually went here 
because one of us wanted to have the Sizzling Pork Sisig which was supposed to be 
their specialty. But lo and behold! It was not available! They also didn't have any
iced tea anymore at the time we started eating but was available by the time we
finished! Not coming back! The food wasn't that impressive anyway...

Crispy Beef Tadyang Php 225

Nothing special. Serving was small.

Kare- Kare Php 245

I wasn't a fan of their peanut sauce. It was too thick. There was a generous amount of meat here however.

Chicken Sisig

Didn't get to taste this. 

Halo- Halo Php 100

Half serving only.

They don't impose service charge and all the menu prices include tax already, so yey me!